Good course. Nice pads and shots.

Very over grown in the summer. Lost two discs that should have been easy finds.

Nice, beautiful scenery.

+ The whole course feels like an adventurous hike. Steep climbs, a few bounding valleys, and one or two dizzying descents await you here. Leave the flip flops in the car.
+ Clear and accurate 'current tee' signs let the players know what's ahead, OB (if any), the distance but NOT the par for some reason.
+ 'Next tee' signs point the way to the next hole.
+ All tee pads are sturdy and level stone pavers.
+ Most holes have two pins in play so the player can choose their challenge.

- The overgrowth is kind of crazy. On some of the holes, even the fairways looked like extensions of the rough.
- The rough itself is rather obnoxious. Tall grasses, ferns, dense woods, countless spider webs, thorns, thick bushes, vine ivy and more are all eager to snatch up discs.
- No lost disc box. A course like this sorely needs one.
- While present on all holes, the next tee signs are easy to miss because they are nearly the same color as the trees to which they are attached. I got lost twice here because my eyes didn't catch the signs.
- Only two or three wide open holes to rip at full power.

My favorite hole here was probably 11.
After spending nine or ten holes surrounded by nothing but trees, flies, bushes and spider webs, it was a calming and gratifying sight to behold a seemingly endless grove of fruit-bearing trees right alongside hole 11 with the Appalachians as the backdrop. The hole itself was rather typical, I just really liked the view.
My least favorite hole here is probably 1. It is the flattest and most open hole, and the stream on the left side claimed one of my discs. If anyone finds my tie-dye Innova Thunderbird, they can keep it. I won't be back this way for a long while.

As for the course itself, I like what I experienced, all things considered...
The elevation challenges are a lot of fun. Hole 3 is a crazy steep uphill. 17 is a fun valley. 18 is a majestic and slightly dangerous downhill throw that can easily claim your disc if you don't keep eyes on it.
Then again, lots of holes can claim your disc here. I understand that it's difficult to get the big mowing equipment up the steep hills that lead to the majority of the course, but letting it just grow doesn't seem like a viable option for the course's longevity. And the status of the course's rough doesn't help things.
The course is mostly wooded. I like how each throw demands that a player take their time and plan a sensible line. It's a shame that some holes feel repetitive. Woods are woods are woods. It gets tiresome after awhile. And the navigation can be a true hassle. I remember getting lost between holes 12 and 13 because there were three paths to choose from, and I didn't see an easily missed 'next tee' sign on a tree down a certain path. I'd have liked to see the next tee signs as more eye-catching colors.
Whatever you take away from this review, don't let be that I see Poor House Farm as a bad course. I recommend it to any player who isn't afraid to face off against forests, imposing hills, and ruthless rough. I will admit here and now that I started off playing the long pins but realized through immense frustration about 1/3 of the way through that I'd bitten more than I could chew and switched to the short pins. As a result, I ended up having more fun.
So, there are some fun holes here that you will be glad you experienced. There are some lovely sights here that you will be glad you saw. The woods are challenging but unforgiving. The potential for losing a disc is high at this course.
Bottom line: If you like a little adventure in your disc golf, then Poor House Farm is for you.

After making your way past the youth football fields and the reception hall and the fishing pond, the course sits in the wooded hills beyond. There is some nice elevation. Hole 2 is a short drive straight up the mountain, and hole 3 is a fun ace run down the other side. After this you're playing with more gentle elevation until late in the round.


This is an intermediate's course. The holes are mostly 250-300 feet, and if you can throw straight, you can shoot well here.

I only saw one other person on the course (a dog walker). It was drizzly, but I wonder if you always get to enjoy this much solitude.

Tee pads are brick and pretty solid (as bricks tend to be).

Navigation isn't easy with multiple intersecting paths making it difficult to tell where the next hole is. There are a couple signs pointing the way, but not on most holes. Even with the map it wasn't always easy.

It shouldn't be too hard to avoid the rough, but the rough is very thick if you do shank one in there.

The tee signs indicate distance and nothing else. Although the holes aren't long, the basket is often not visible from the tee.

Hole 18 is a tragedy. A fun bomb down a steep hill (think intermediate ski trail steepness) is ruined by the fact that the basket isn't visible and could be in any number of places. I had to throw a succession of dump shots until I finally saw it behind a clump of bushes at the very bottom. Someone really overthought this. It still would have been a great hole if the basket was straight down the hill.

For such a rural area, I'm glad to see a good course with pretty nice design. It's not a bad place for any beginner or intermediate player, and even better players will enjoy some ace runs.

18 technical holes playing through rugged wooded mountain terrain. 16 of the tees are nice pavers and holes 17 and 18 were natural tees. There are basic signs around the tees. Good mix of holes playing straight or gentle turns left or right with varying distances and elevation changes. There is some OB on the course to add to the challenge. Lots of fun short holes and hole 18 caps it off throwing a monster downhill shot. Benches at all the tees. Bathrooms by parking lot.

As a traveling player, navigation and signage are the biggest cons here. There are tee signs at the tees, but some are mounted and others are laying around. The rough can also be a menace. As I was searching for an errant disc on hole 4, a couple nice semi-local players helped in the search and found my lost disc, and I asked to join them since I hadn't played here and they were happy to show me around and they knew navigation is tricky here.

Only one big loop of 18 holes back to parking lot. Course might be a little rough for rank beginners and too tough to hike the elevation required for other people. Course is also a bit short in length for pro level players.

The Poor House Farm DGC is set in the mountain and woods behind the rustic farm house. You pass the pond and go over the bridge of the creek to get to hole 1. There was a wedding going on when I played here and the closest parking lot was closed, and I had to walk the long way around the farm house.

Hole 1 starts out with a nice flat 50-60' wide fairway although there are woods on both sides and a creek on the left that I found on the first drive of the day. Then Holes 2 and 3 play quite a bit uphill. Hole 4 was a nice little valley shot. Holes 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 alternate gentle turns and elevation changes. Holes 12, 13, 14, and 15 all play slightly uphill and varying degrees of straight to slightly RHBH hyzer lines. Holes 16 and 17 are different than the pictures, I forget which one was the short island hole over a valley, but I really liked that shot. There is a bit of a walk downhill to hole 18, then you have a steep downhill bomb and the basket was blind to the right at the bottom of the hill, protected by trees and large rock formations just before the basket and the creek 40' behind the basket. It feels weird to throw out above the trees instead of down the swath of trees that was cut out for the fairway, it's just that steep!

Overall Poor House Farm tastes like a Po Boy Sandwich, it's a fun solid little technical course for most players. It's not a course that would go too far out of the way to play, but if in the area bring a map or meet a local, stay in the fairway, and have a good ole time here.

Lots of variety. Stream along hole 1 and at the bottom of 18. Plenty of changes in elevation. Holes 2-4 all uphill and narrow. Fairly well marked. Most t pads are in decent condition. Hole number 11 in the spring when the apple blossems are in bloom, might be one of the most scenic holes in the US. Hole 18 is a downhill bomb. Basket hidden behind rock ledge at the bottom.

Holes 2-4 all uphill and narrow. Easy to lose discs in the summer, as this is not an easy course to keep mowed. We use spotters on lots of holes. Last 3 holes t pads are incomplete. Some fairways have low stumps that can do severe damage to your ankles if you are not paying attention. Hole 18 is so easy to lose a disc on because even a mid level player can throw 300ft. I would suggest spotters.

Keep in mind this is also a X-counrty running course so look out for people running on the course. Changed 16 and 17 last year. I liked the old 17 better.

Good long course. Great exercise. There is a little bit of a walk between each hole which was nice.

Great variety of shots with low canopies. Found myself throwing A LOT of sidearms so be sure to practice those before you head out.

AWESOME volunteer out weed-eating 18. This hole is very steep and we were impressed with his commitment.

Great brick tees on front nine.

Signage to next hole was a god-send! I would have hated to have not had the help.

Plenty of blind shots with no help from the tees.

Found myself consistently in the wrong spot. Not terrible throws, but from where I landed you could not approach the basket. Next time I'll know but it was frustrating for a while.

The place is coming along. Look for the tournament in September.

Great scenery

Decent variation between the holes

Awesome baskets

Good park to relax at due to the pond

Would recommend to anyone in the 1 hour travel area

Signs could be misleading

Some tees are dirt or gravel

Would be nice to have a map on each hole

Definitely a course worth playing if in the area. I go here a good bit and have fun every time. Either playing a game of PIG on the practice basket or playing back to back rounds with a group of friends is a blast.

Played this course 2 weeks ago and I came away impressed. Tons of woods and elevation. The course offers a nice reward for staying on the fairway. Nice baskets and a very scenic area. The 18th hole might be the best hole on the course. A par 3 with a 100 foot elevation drop. So you have to make sure you don't over throw and end up in the woods.

The marjority of these holes, I think all of them are par 3's. You can see the basket from the tee off position on almost every hole. This isn't really a bad thing but most of the holes are under 300 feet in the 220-250 range. I cannot remember any hole that allowed you to really rip it open. I used my mid range on a lot of my drives.

This was a fun course but not overly challenging. A couple of safe throws and your putting, so very little reward for taking a risk. But still a fun course to play every now and then.


I just played this course again and I might redeuce the score. The tee's are pretty bad on this one. A few loose gravel ones or just grass. Hard to get a good footing.

Nestled in the WV countryside, Poor House Farm is a great community park. The park and most of the course was well kept and nicely manicured. Ten minutes from the I-81 corridor, Poor House Farm is easy to get to. Despite its proximity to the interstate, the sounds of nature easily overtake the din of the traffic.

The baskets at Poor House were in immaculate condition. Additionally, the new looking tee signs were in great shape and were helpful in terms of displaying the hole number, distance, and par. What appeared to be newly-created and hung "Next Hole" signs were very helpful.

Elevation was taken into account when this course was designed and is a highlight of the course. Upshots and downshots were incorporated into several different holes with the 18th hole being a specific highlight. The hole incorporates a 60-100' elevation drop, requiring a low, precise throw or risk a severely punishing lie...an excellent example of the risk/reward aspect of disc golf.

The 10th hole was another gem. Emerging from the wooded fairway of the 9th hole, the tee for the 10th hole looks out across a wide expanse of rolling hills and a massive orchard. This is one of the most beautiful holes that I've ever played.

The course featured a nice distribution of right and left doglegs.

In addition to elevation variety, there were several different types of fairways from wide strips of grass to tightly wooded holes.

Poor House appears to be a work in progress. As such, some tees were gravel while others were natural and a few were muddy.

Tee signs weren't present on all the holes, but upon completion, this could easily be removed as a con. Similarly, while the "Next Hole" signs were helpful, additional signs would help to mitigate potential navigation issues.

While most of the fairways were kept in great shape, the amount of brush that borders several of the holes was excessively dense and could very easily lead to a lost disc (and did in my case...but that's how it goes).

Given the size of the park and the layout, some of the holes could use some additional length to help boost the challenge factor and increase fairway variety. Additionally, given the pond and other adjacent stream, adding some type of obstacles would have been a big plus.

Once the tee signs and tee pads are complete and if some of the underbrush was trimmed back, it would be very easy to bump this course to a 3.5.

Overall, the course was a fun play and the Martinsburg, WV residents can count themselves lucky that they have such a nice course in their area. I'd recommend Poor Hourse Farm to anyone traveling on I-81.

variety - you will have steep uphills, and downhill, long flat shots, right turning, left turning. Shots where you have to make choices, open shots, well guarded baskets...
gorgeous views of the orchards

As the other reviews mentioned the tees could use some work. The markers are a little tough to find, but more clearly defined tee areas would be helpful as well as signs.
All of the holes are in the woods. I may be a little biased as I love the wide open grip it and rip it holes, but you do play every hole with trees on both sides and often above as well. Even with that as the case, several of the holes are wide enough (in winter) to have plenty of room (hole 1 comes to mind) to let it go.

This is a great course in progress. I think it has the potential to be an all-star course. They made great use of the elevation and terrain they had. I love the way the holes follow the trails.
I played it for the first time in the dark and had a blast. Even though we couldn't see the baskets we could tell where the fairways were and could follow those to the holes. The second time I played there were 4 inches of snow on the ground which again made finding the tees a little tough.
Over all a great course to play and well done for only being around a few months. Can't wait to see it get more developed with signs and tees.
Also I noticed a lot of trees marked to be cut down... I think a few of them could go, but the numbers that were marked would be way too much.

There is a lot of elevation changes, with a few severe up and downhill shots. Only a few holes don't have some kind of elevation. A fairly tightly wooded course, with clearly defined fairways. Separated from the rest of the park, so there should be very little non disc golf traffic. Nice new Discatchers, that are easy to find. Course navigation was fairly easy, even without a map. Small stakes in the ground defined tee boxes and next tee locations.

In a multiuse park with bathrooms, a small pond, and conveniently located only a few minutes off of I81.

Dirt tees were not clearly defined, especially holes 12 and 18. The stakes directing to next tees and marking the tee boxes were sort of small and not always easy to see. In the summer, the overgrowth will make finding these stakes much harder.

There are 3 or 4 holes with extreme elevation to negotiate. In rain or wet conditions, these will be very muddy and become treacherous, and possibly unplayable.

This course appears to still be a work in progress. There had to be a lot of work clearing fairways and paths.

It is not a long course at all. I think only a few holes I couldn't see the basket from the tee. Accuracy is at a premium. Playing in the winter, errant shots weren't too difficult to find your disc, but I think in the summer, losing a disc is a very good possibility. Also, in the summer, the holes will seem even tighter.

This course is also not the easiest to traverse. With some uphill climbs, you will definitely get a work out. Maybe too much for young kids.

With improved tees, a few more strategically located next tee signs, and multiple pins, this could easily become a great course.